Becoming Queen Victoria : the tragic death of Princess Charlotte and the unexpected rise of Britain's greatest monarch /: the tragic death of Princess Charlotte and the unexpected rise of Britain's greatest monarch. ([2010])

• Record Type: Book
• Uniform Title: Becoming queen
• Further Information: Note: Kate Williams.
• Other Names: Williams, Kate, 1974-
• Contents: PART ONE: 1796-1817 Charlotte: The Queen Who Never Was -- "The Most Distressing Feelings of My Heart" -- "I Find Him Very Fat, and Nothing as Handsome as His Portrait" -- "An Immense Girl" -- "Fleas are the Only Enemies HRH Has" -- The Mistress of Montague House -- Forming the Character of a Young Princess -- Sex, Lies, and Scandals -- Prince Regent -- The Nunnery -- "Thinking that She has a Will of Her Own" -- Violent Orange Attacks -- The Rising Sun -- "The Soldiers Will Be Ordered Out" -- A Little Turquoise Heart -- The Black Sheep -- "Everything I Could Wish & Desire Collected in One" -- Mr. and Mrs. Coburg -- "Some Strange, Awkward Symptoms" -- Interlude 1817-20 Drunken Dukes -- "The Dregs of Their Dull Race" -- "As Plump as a Partridge" -- Alexandrina Victoria -- PART TWO: 1820-37 Little Victoria -- An Idol in Kensington Palace -- "The Nation's Hope" -- Imperial Robes -- Living in a Very Simple Manner -- "I Was Greatly Pleased" -- Educating a Princess -- Sickly Uncle King -- Charlotte the Queen? -- "The Queen Does Nothing but Embroider Flowers" -- "How Very Old" -- "When Nobody Wishes to Change and Nobody Wants to Give In" -- Victoria on Tour -- Victoria's Whims -- Crowds of Princes -- "I Cannot Expect to Live Very Long" -- "It May All Be Over at Any Moment" -- PART THREE: 1837-41 The Young Queen -- "Just the Sort of Life I Like" -- "He is of the Greatest Use to Me" -- Scandal -- A Way of Settling It -- Passing like a Dream -- "Monsters!" -- "An Everlasting Impression" -- "Children Seem to Literally Be Raining Down from Heaven" -- "What a Hard Task It Is for Us Women."
• Publisher Details: New York : Ballantine Books
• Publication Date: 2010
• Extent: 1 online resource (xiv, 448 pages, [16] pages of plates), illustrations (some color)
• Subjects: 941.081; Princesses -- Great Britain -- Biography; Queens -- Great Britain -- Biography; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical; HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain; History; Great Britain -- Kings and rulers -- Succession; Electronic books; Electronic books; Childhood and youth; Influence
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780345521934; 0345521935; 1299059422; 9781299059429; 9781448164660; 1448164664
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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